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Accelerate your sales with Deal Ready Demo Accelerators
Accelerate customer conversations with Deal Ready Demo Accelerators—prebuilt, reusable solution scenarios you can use to move faster from discovery to close. Deal Ready Demo Accelerators combine Microsoft reference architectures, guided sales narratives, and cost transparency into a seamless experience that requires no engineering effort or live tenant setup—designed to reduce technical complexity, build customer confidence, and shorten sales cycles. Use these ready-to-run demos to deliver consistent, architecture-backed demos across solution areas, from AI Business Solutions—including AI business process and AI workforce—to Cloud & AI Platforms and Security. Explore the Deal Ready Demo Accelerators and get started today. Available on demand for eligible Microsoft partner types. Please refer to the official terms and conditions for usage guidelines.ICYMI | Partner Blog | Your FY27 partner skilling roadmap: What’s new and where to start
by Justin Slade, Senior Director, Strategy, Microsoft Global Partner Skilling Welcome to FY27 and the latest Microsoft Partner Skilling updates. As AI continues to reshape how customers evaluate, buy, and adopt technology, skilling is becoming a practical growth lever across partner roles, from sales and presales to solution architecture, delivery, and customer success. Whether you are building AI solutions, scaling Microsoft 365 Copilot practices, preparing for agent opportunities, or aligning your team to Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program requirements, this month’s updates give you a clearer path to build the capabilities customers expect. The Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub is the central destination to start, offering no-cost partner skilling across Microsoft Cloud solution areas, with live, in-person, virtual, and on-demand learning tracks for multiple roles and technical certifications. Continue reading blog hereScale Microsoft 365 Copilot for SMBs with targeted sales and technical skilling
Build the skills to land, deploy, and scale Microsoft 365 Copilot solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB Learning Journeys. Now available on the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub, the Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB Learning Journeys are designed for both sales and technical roles. These structured paths offer on-demand skilling to guide teams from foundational knowledge to real-world execution. Built so your teams can land deals and deploy, configure, and scale Copilot solutions with confidence, there are two paths available: Sales + Tech Deal Ready: Empower your sales teams to show SMBs the immense benefits of deploying Copilot, resulting in new deals, upsell, and cross-sell. Project Ready: Tech teams can build the skills to deploy, configure, and scale the solutions that will set SMBs up for success. Encourage your teams to sign up today to take their Copilot knowledge to the next level.Explore curated Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys
Skilling is foundational for success in an AI-first market. Keeping up with evolving technologies and capabilities better positions you with the skills you need to succeed in an ever-changing market, making it a base-level requirement for sustained growth. As part of our effort to support partners with skilling, we offer Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys (PDJs), curated presales, sales, and tech skilling experiences designed to enhance your knowledge aligned with partner strategic wins. First-time users may need to register—use your work email credentials to sign up. Curated journeys include: Microsoft Security Copilot Drive Business Transformation with Microsoft Copilot 365 Innovate with Azure AI Platform Drive Windows in the Cloud with Windows 365 Cloud Endpoints Modern Security Operations Data Security for AI Migrate to Azure Drive Business Collaboration and Teamwork with Microsoft Teams Accelerate Data Analytics Journey with Microsoft Fabric Cloud Security These journeys are tailored to your interests, needs, and role within your organization. Select the link relevant to the journey you're interested in, register today on the Skilling Hub using your organizational email credentials, answer a few questions, and you'll receive tech and sales-ready skilling experiences customized to your interests and goals. And to continue supporting you as you grow your revenue, we're hosting our annual MCAPS Start for Partners event on July 22. We encourage you to register today so you can get insights from Microsoft leaders on where we’re investing, our shared priorities, and how to activate AI-led opportunities to drive growth this year. Register nowNew Learning Journeys now live
Explore new CSP SMB and Microsoft Agent 365 + ME7 Learning Journeys designed to help sales, technical, and delivery teams move faster from skilling to real-world execution. Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs (SMB) Sales + Tech Deal Ready Build the skills to land and expand Copilot opportunities. Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs (SMB) Project Ready Build the skills to deploy, configure, and scale solutions with confidence. Microsoft Agent 365 & ME7 Partner Skilling Sales Ready Learn to position and sell AI agents with Microsoft 365, from opportunity to close. Microsoft Agent 365 & ME7 Partner Skilling Project Ready Learn to implement, secure, and manage AI agents with Microsoft 365 in real-world scenarios. Explore all Learning Journeys here: GCPS Catalog | Partner Skilling CatalogICYMI: Build the skills to strengthen customer conversations with Microskilling
Microskilling supports partners throughout their skilling journey as an autonomous learning modality, offering a holistic, curated experience through short, high-impact videos and podcasts. Read more in the blog: Get started with Microskilling, the autonomous learning modality built to speed deals
